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    Drama TV Shows - 1980s TV Shows - 1990s 2 Mins Read

    London’s Burning

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    1 9 8 6 (UK)
    1 9 8 8 – 2 0 0 2 (UK)
    1 x 120 minute movie
    170 x 60 minute episodes

    LWT’s London’s Burning was a colourful stirring 1986 film which became a regular series in 1988.

    Jack Rosenthal’s firemen, with nicknames like Charisma (because he had none), Sicknote (because he was always ill) and Vaseline (because he was slippery) were lazy loafers, doing odd jobs, taking the mickey out of each other, cheating on their wives . . .

    But when the bell rang they were transformed into valiant life savers – The firefighters of Blue Watch, Blackwall Fire Station in East London.

    In 1998 (at the start of Series 10) the show went into decline, with a change to the iconic theme tune of the show and the introduction of a lot of new characters and the killing off of favourites which started with John Hallam in Series 9, Georgiadis (Series 11), Sicknote (Series 12) and finally Recall (Series 14).

    When they killed off Sicknote, he was the last character from the Pilot movie, leaving George as the only character to remain in the show from the first series.

    Further changes included the direction of the show, taking the focus off firefighting (hello?!) and by the end of series 14 London’s Burning was more of a soap opera/melodrama of the characters lives with almost no “shouts”.

    The ratings of the show – which had been consistently high during the 1990’s – fell drastically and in 2002 – after 14 years and 171 episodes – Blue Watch responded to their last shout.

    London’s Burning had come to a rather disappointing end.

    George Green
    Glen Murphy
    Roland ‘Vaseline’ Cartwright

    Mark Arden 
    Mike ‘Bayleaf’ Wilson

    James Hazeldine
    Sidney Tate 

    James Marcus 
    John Hallam 

    Sean Blowers
    Malcolm Cross 

    Rupert Baker 
    Bert ‘Sicknote’ Quigley 

    Richard Walsh 
    Leslie ‘Charisma’ Appleby 

    Gerard Horan
    Geoffrey ‘Poison’ Pearce
    Michael Garner
    Stuart ‘Recall’ McKenzie
    Ben Onwukwe
    Josie Ingham
    Katharine Rogers
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    Gary McDonald 
    Gerry

    Eric Deacon 
    Rambo 

    Jerome Flynn

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